Celebrity Death Pool 2019

redvee

Pat Laffan aka Pat Mustard the milkman from Father Ted

JBA wrote:

Magenta Devine

Sounds a little better than Kim Taylor.

redvee

bg13 wrote:

Charlie whiting, F1 bloke!

The last tweet from Fake Charlie Whiting today.

https://twitter.com/charlie_whiting/sta ... 0163851264

Stevo_666

redvee wrote:

Pat Laffan aka Pat Mustard the milkman from Father Ted

That's tragic. He'll never put his massive tool in Mrs. Doyle's box again.

bg13

Some nobody off of some telly box programme called love island!

No, me either!

JBA

Dick Dale, super guitar playerist.

redvee

Scott Tracy from Thunderbirds aka Shane Rimmer.

Wheelspinner

oxoman wrote:

Childhood hero Scott Tracey so Thunderbird 1 is in need of a new pilot. RIP Shane Rimmer.

Q: What would you get if a Supermodel married a Thunderbirds character?

A: Claudia Schiffer-Brains


I'll get my coat...

veronese68

I think Cooldad warrants a mention on this thread, he was certainly a forum celebrity.
RIP chief Spazwangle.

Stevo_666

Veronese68 wrote:

I think Cooldad warrants a mention on this thread, he was certainly a forum celebrity.
RIP chief Spazwangle.

+1

Not sure what else to say.

bg13

oxoman wrote:

+2 Cooldad was way better than some so called stars / celebrities.

Reall sad to hear about Cooldad, don't think anyone has used the word 'spazwangle' so well.
RIP Sir.

bg13

Tommy Smith ex Liverpool footballerist

Tashman

Billy McNeill, ex Celtic kickballer

bigmitch41

oxoman wrote:

+2 Cooldad was way better than some so called stars / celebrities.

Good shout, +3 for Cooldad 8)

redvee

Chewbacca, aka Peter Mayhew, a few days before Star Wars Day.

tlw1

oxoman wrote:

Freddie Starr 76 RIP. Certainly not everyones cup of tea. Did some good stuff for charity though.

Gone to the great hamster wheel in the sky

veronese68

Doris Day is gone at 97. Must confess I had no idea she was still alive, turns out she retired in her 50s.

Wheelspinner

Niki Lauda has pulled into pit lane for the final time.

Stevo_666

Wheelspinner wrote:

Niki Lauda has pulled into pit lane for the final time.

Very sad. The Lizard is no more.

veronese68

Stevo 666 wrote:

Wheelspinner wrote:

Niki Lauda has pulled into pit lane for the final time.

Very sad. The Lizard is no more.

Read a book a while back called Grand Prix Requiem it was about great racing drivers that had died and their stories. Niki Lauda was included because they reckoned he really shouldn’t have survived.
In contrast they reckon Ronnie Peterson should have lived. Motor racing was a dangerous game.

Stevo_666

Veronese68 wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

Wheelspinner wrote:

Niki Lauda has pulled into pit lane for the final time.

Very sad. The Lizard is no more.

Read a book a while back called Grand Prix Requiem it was about great racing drivers that had died and their stories. Niki Lauda was included because they reckoned he really shouldn’t have survived.
In contrast they reckon Ronnie Peterson should have lived. Motor racing was a dangerous game.

Sound like a good book, if a bit morbid. No doubt they had plenty of material.

Wheelspinner

Veronese68 wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

Wheelspinner wrote:

Niki Lauda has pulled into pit lane for the final time.

Very sad. The Lizard is no more.

Read a book a while back called Grand Prix Requiem it was about great racing drivers that had died and their stories. Niki Lauda was included because they reckoned he really shouldn’t have survived.
In contrast they reckon Ronnie Peterson should have lived. Motor racing was a dangerous game.

Way back in them thar Seventies, knew a mate of a mate who was a complete F1 tragic fan. He took a year off work to go bum around and follow the GP races in Europe, and after about 6 weeks had somehow managed to blag his way onto the Ferrari team as a pit crew bloke, with the job of basically looking after tyres on wheels and not much else. But he spent the year at their expense watching from pit lane. This bloke was himself a seriously *good* driver, did a lot of rallying and track work. During that season they spent the off weeks "testing" at Fiorano in Italy, and there were some factory road cars for the drivers. Lauda had a 512BB Boxer to use. One day he took some of the crew out for "hot laps" to show them how it was done.

Mate says he had never been so thoroughly terrified in a car in his life. Lauda driving this thing had it a bit sideways drifting at over 100 mph, then took his hands OFF THE WHEEL, and straightened it up on throttle balance alone before shifting up to go faster.. didn't touch steering till it was pointed straight ahead and nearing 130 mph. Laughing his head off at the time apparently.

Tashman

Wheelspinner wrote:

Lauda had a 512BB Boxer to use. One day he took some of the crew out for "hot laps" to show them how it was done.

Mate says he had never been so thoroughly terrified in a car in his life. Lauda driving this thing had it a bit sideways drifting at over 100 mph, then took his hands OFF THE WHEEL, and straightened it up on throttle balance alone before shifting up to go faster.. didn't touch steering till it was pointed straight ahead and nearing 130 mph. Laughing his head off at the time apparently.

That sounds like the most thrilling and terrifying thing. Amazing!

veronese68

Stevo 666 wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

Wheelspinner wrote:

Niki Lauda has pulled into pit lane for the final time.

Very sad. The Lizard is no more.

Read a book a while back called Grand Prix Requiem it was about great racing drivers that had died and their stories. Niki Lauda was included because they reckoned he really shouldn’t have survived.
In contrast they reckon Ronnie Peterson should have lived. Motor racing was a dangerous game.

Sound like a good book, if a bit morbid. No doubt they had plenty of material.

Very much so. It was written before the Senna/Ratzenberger weekend, there had been no deaths in F1 for years up to that point. The early years there was a lot of being killed by rolling the car trying to avoid a dog type stuff. Some great stories and real characters.
That’s a great story Spinner and terrifying. I’ve been in a car going sideways at about a ton with the driver twirling the wheel saying it made no difference what the car did, but that was a heavily modified Range Rover.

Tashman

Judith Kerr - children's author of The Tiger who came to tea, and the Mog books. Quite a life story herself

Wheelspinner

Few days late, but R.I.P to Rip Torn.
Best stage name ever?

Wheelspinner

Peter McNamara, (Aussie) tennis player-ist of considerable note in the 80’s, including dual Wimby doubles champ, and owner of one of the best mullet hair-do’s in the game, gone at 64.

PhilipPirrip

Rutger Hauer. "Time to die."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOW4QiOD-oc

bg13

Joe Longthorne, entertainer bloke from back when television pictures were black and white.

Wheelspinner

Peter Fonda rides out.

Stevo_666

Hans Rausing. Will need a Tetepak coffin soon.